By Aaron Mubanga Jnr

MTN/FAZ premier league defending Champions Zesco opened up a 7 point lead on Saturday 22nd August after a 2-0 beating of Red Arrows at Nkoloma Stadium.Winston Kalengo provided the goals taking him to 10 goals in the race for the Golden Boot .This result means that Red Arrows have not beaten Zesco at Nkoloma in 11 games and in those games they have only managed 4 goals.Arrows last win dates back as far as 2004.With this result Zesco are separate themselves from the rest of the park by 7 points.

Forest Rangers Visited Nakambala Leopards in Mazabuka .Every premier league team knows a visit to the Nakambala Stadium is no easy one and so it proved for Forest as they went down 2-1.

Ronald Chibwe scored the only goal in Nchanga Rangers one nil win over high flying Nkwazi.

Green Buffaloes FC made a return to the Independence Stadium after it received a face lift. In their first encounter at Independence Stadium after a long time they faced Elite Lusaka Dynamoes.It was to be a good return for them as Sebastian Mwansa’s 55th minute strike proved enough to correct three much needed points for GBFC.

Mighty Mufurila have moved to Kafubu Stadium after FAZ ordered they play matches 60+ Km away from Shinde stadium.This week they Hosted a familiar face in Power Dynamoes and a 70th minute strike by Lameck Silwimba was all but enough to sink Dynamoes.

The weekend belonged to Konkola Blades who managed to put 3 past the parliamentarians National Assembly with goals courtesy of Smart Chisenga,Matthews Maleka and Erick Chisala.

Walter Bwalya and Simon bwalya both scored as 12 times Champions nkana beat Green Eagles 2-0

Moses Phiri’s 59th minute strike settled the Money Derby as NAPSA Stars went down 1-0 to Zanaco.

Full weekend Results

Nakambala Leopards 2-1 Forest Rangers

NAPSA Stars 0-1 Zanaco

GBFC 1-0 Lusaka Dynamoes

Red Arrows 0-2 Zesco

Mighty Mufurila wanderers 1-0 Power Dynamoes

Konkola Blades 3-0 National Assembly

Nkana 2-0 Green Eagles

Nchanga Rangers 1-0 Nkwazi

Collins Okinyo

Ex- CAF Media Expert. An expert on African football with over 15 years experience ,always with an ear to the ground with indepth knowledge of the game. I have worked for top publications including 7 years at www.supersport.com until i founded www.soka25east.com to quench the thirst of football lovers across the continent. I have trained young upcoming journalists who are now a voice in African football.I have covered World Cup,AFCON,CHAN,Champions League,Confederations Cup,Cecafa,Cosafa,Wafu and many other football tournaments across the World. Founder Football Africa Arena(FAA),Founder www.afrisportdigital.com